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Chicago examiner saturday Chicago january 19 1918 saturday u.s^ruc price two cents sssms vol xvi no 25 a m fuel edict vital says wilson unuun qecrei r mcadoo quits meeting after re fusing to support tidewater embargo urged by fuel head lane's resignation rumored and denied talk of impeaching garfield rife in senate washington jan is dr harry a garfield's drastic ' fuel order has precipitated a i crisis in the cabinet for nearly four hours to-day the | president's official advisers wrestled i with the problem it was a stormy i session following this the president ! anj tils fuel administrator issued i statements defending the order \ but it is doubted in many quarters >| that the statements represented the . individual sentiment of the cabinet reports to-night were that secre : tary lane incensed over the failure j of the president to consult with the j entire cabinet before issuing the or i der has resigned this was denied ! officially up to president says angry cabinet member one cabinet member leaving the j meeting this afternoon was asked ! his views of the garfield order the president and the gentlemen he consulted are responsible he i snapped back tliere were indications in the cab â€¢ inet meeting of friction between ; railroad director mcadoo and dr garfield the fuel administrator haa i recommended an embargo on all ship ! ments to tidewater points until the : harbor congestion is cleared di i rector mcadoo is opposed to an eni | bargo and said so mr mcadoo left thc cabinet meet 1 ing while the discussion over the coal j order was at white heat he said i am of the opinion the drastic 1 step taken was necessary or the i president never would have per mitted it i understand that i am charged by congressmen with full j responsibility for the coal order i this is wrong bul i prefer not to j discuss that phase of the que ! tion . __. ! garfield able man jm'adoo declares the country should understand that dr garfield has been in touch with this situation for several i months while my time has been all ' devoted to treasury department matters until the last two or three | weeks and let me say also tliat 1 i'.avt known dr garfield for a ions time and consider him an able man congress is seething with rebellion i the senate was loud in its indigna j tion over the action of dr garfield ! in issuing his order in face of tha formal demand of the senate for a postponement â€¢ there was talk here and tliere o a possible impeachment of the fuel administrator but the most serious sign of resentment was a widespread determination to deny the adminis tration any extraordinary power ia the future 1,000 more plants j are given exemption dr garfield in his statement to day asserted the food supply of the nation was threatened to an even greater degree than the fuel supply by congestion his office backed up the defense to-night with a statement that boi much coal had reached tidewater as a result of the first day's shutdown that before long a million ton ot george ready to join peace parleys will confer with german dele gates on british labor's terms when teutons will talk sense premier challenges unions to overthrow the government whenever they are dissatisfied j jr ondon jan is at the close of j a notable address by lloyd j â€¢â– -' george to the trade unions of great britain to-day in which he j practically told the laborites that | the winning cf the war rested on | their co-operation the premier was j vigorously heckled in the course of plain-spoken and ; unrehearsed question and answer lloyd george challenged the labor , ites to overthrow the government if they were dissatisfied and at any time they pleased he also declared that england was ready to discuss peace with germany's commissioners if they really represented the ger j man people many questions were put to the juemier by delegates regarding peace negotiations or permitting a confer ence at stockholm lloyd george replied germany ready for peace at own price â– â– | . germany always has been ready for peace at her own price but that is not a price that we are prepared to pay the moment the germans show a disposition to nc gufiate a peace on equitable terms Â»â€” and they are the terms the labor party itself has in substance adopted â€” there will be no reluc tance to enter into peace negoti ations ithe premiers objection lo the stockholm conference was lhat dele gates of thc german government m'toukl be chose a delegate inter jected not necessarily warns against being deceived lloyd george replied 1 do not let us deceive ourselves f with delusions you can only make ' \ peace with a government if the v government does not represent the people of germany let them change their government the premier heie challenged his juidience to change their own govern ment if they are dissatisfied ancl a ; delegate called out j u.s an opportunit ." . ' lloyd george replied we havc given you the best op portunity because wc introduced a franchise bill adding s 000,000 to the electorate you can have your opportunity whenever you like it is not the government which shrinks from it will recognize people's government asked whether if the germans de | cided on a government similar to that j of the present russian government england would recognize their rep resentatives lloyd george replied we will recognize the repre sentatives of any government what ever set up by the german people a delegate asked whether presi dent wilson's reference to the free dom of the seas agreed with the views of the british government mr lloyd george replied i wish to know what freedom of the seas means does it mean freedom for submarines and does lit mean starvation for this coun | try after all we are in a very ] peace on way minister tells prussian diet amsterdam jan 18 finance minister hermet in introduc ing the budget in the prussian diet said despite internal political con vulsions we have a feeling of relief in the consciousness we can economically hold out even if the dearness and scarcity of foodstuffs should increase the general morale also had suf fered under war conditions hut of what significance is that when we remember our brilliant military position created by the incomparable and glorious deeds of our army and fleet even though many hindran ces bar our wav to peace peace is on the march and the longer the western powers are recal citrant the more favorable to us will the peace terms he roumania and russ near war j bolshevik army sends two-hour edict demanding pas sage to j assy petrograd jan 1 delayed â€” the bolsheviki announced to-day for \ mer premier kerensky former minis ter of war savinkoft and m fllonen ko in hldine here have plotted with general knledlne to overthrow the bolshevik government at the constitu ent assembly's opening to-morrow an ' extraordinary commission for the ; ik-oteetlon of petrogrnd has been ap pointed london jan is â€” the revolution ! ary committee of the 9th russian i j army lias sent a two-hour ultimatum ] to roumania demanding tliat russian troops be permitted to pass thkmgh jassy the roumanian capital the i situation is regarded as dangerous according to dispatches from petro grad a flat denial was issued at smolny institute to-day of the report that the bolshevik government has issued orders for the arrest of the king of roumania martial law ix capital the safety commission of the bol sheviki to-day placed the capital un i der martial law while the real rea son is believed to be to guard against any disorders in connection with the meeting of the constituent assembly i scheduled for to-day a statement by ! the commission says all attempts at revolt are to be vigorously suppressed former premier kerensky is re ported to be in sweden by the petro grad vechernia vremya which re sumed publication on tuesday â– a request by the german delega tion in petrograd that the czarina and other members of the russian royal family related to the kaiser be permitted to go to germany to live i was refused by thc bolsheviki it 1 was decided to place members of the 1 family on trial at once a settlement in principle of the questions concerning the political re i latlons of the central powers and the ukrainians was reached during a pri vate conference according to berlin reports of the brest-litovsk confer ence the statement declares the settle ment is a decisive step forward dr von kuehlmann tho german i foreign secretary urged businesslike ! discussion of the four points pro posed by the russian delegation ' trotsky agreed and the next sitting i was set for the following day thurs | day j hertling postpones speech amsterdam jan is â€” chancellor hertling's postponement of his reply to president wilson and premier lloyd george to-day is said to be due to his desire to wait until the conflict between the annexationists and nonannexationists is compro mised / major gardner leaves estate of 1,000,000 salem mass jan is â€” the will of maj augustus p gardner former congressman who died at camp wheeler ga was filed here to-day his estate amounted to more than a million dollars his wife gets 350 000 and the same amount goes to his only daughter constance g mlnot food causes mutinies in four nations great unrest leading to riots i reported from russia austria germany and great britain delay in peace negotiations adds to uneasiness of people rus sian railways in hands of mobs amsterdam jan 18 â€” entire com panies of austrian troops have been ordered executed for agreeing with russian socialist views according to dispatches peace riots in vienna peace riots have occurred in vi enna in which food shops were looted russian peace propaganda reduced bread rations and police regulations to prevent workers meetings are as signed as the reason strikes and serious riots are re ported to have taken place monday at vienna gratz brunn linz and wiener-neustadt the volkesstemme of mannheim a socialist paper says serious popular demonstrations against the german j annexationist policy took place at budapest and other towns in hun gary and austria after chancellor von hertling made his statement in the reichstag german plight serious paris jan 18 â€” authentic advices received from switzerland indicate the pinch of starvation and the un rest is greater in germany than ever before the russian peace move fails to quell the people's rising anger the dispatches strengthen the view that germany is staking all on one great drive in the west however no doubt is felt here that the allied line will hold russians starving copenhagen jan is the food situation is causing the greatest con cern in russia prices are beyond the reach of most of the people in ferior butter sells for 5 a pound as a result of pillaging of trains by the starving populace bolsheviki troops to-day were ordered to use whatever measures were necessary to restore order re-establish train service and check profiteers british food concern london jan 18 â€” baron rhondda food controller to-day said his worst difficulty in obtaining adequate sup plies of food for the populations of great britain was due to the falling off in imports and the fact that most of the imported goods went to the army Â„ he asked potatoes be largely eaten and used for the making of bread the speaker said the people must economize more than they had if they did so there was not the slight est fear of panic the germans would consider the rations of many of the english people to-day an ac tual luxury it wsfc necessary the food controller continued to reduce the consumption of meat during the next few weeks but there was no i prospect of a meat famine newspapers in london are giving increased attention to home food troubles and popular impatience with what is regarded widely as avoid able privations the times torday prominently calls attention to the of unequal distribution of food and its offspring the queue system which it says is beginning to tell on the public temper lloyd george seeks compromise on erin london jan 18 â€” the fact that the irish convention has adjourned until next tuesday instead of closing this week as reported is understood to mean according to the daily news that the government will ascertain whether a compromise is possible on points at issue dublin reports that premier lloyd george is informing himself of the ulster council's atti tude toward a settlement korniloff wounded in battle with reds london jan 18 â€” general korni loff leader of one of the opposition factions is reported to have been wounded in a fight between his forces and bolsheviki at chernigov \ jap cruiser lands troops in vladivostok petrograd jan 18 a jap anese cruiser has landed troops at vladivostok the jap anese consul there declares the soldiers are to keep order owing to danger threatening japanese citizens according to dispatches received here no desire to inter fere in russian affairs is held he asserts senators agree on war cabinet bill will provide for three dis tinguished men of affairs to be named by wilson washington jan is the sen ate military affairs committee will report out monday a bill providing for creation of a super-war cabinet to be appointed by the president and to consist of three distinguished men of affairs not members of the present cabinet earlier in the day the bill creating a director of munitions was favorably reported wilson favors bill , the fact that the secretary of war and secretary of the navy have been left out of the war cabinet is the surprise of the day contrary to-all expectation and pre vious statements it was declared on most reliable authority to-night that both the secretary and the presfdeiit are now favorable to the idea that a war cabinet acting between the pres ident and the usual cabinet would be a step in the right direction wheth er the president and mr baker will favor elimination of the secretaries is a question there will be a fight on both bills but the war cabinet bill will be pushed vigorously by the senate mil itary committee senate to ratify names senators say that with the realiza tion of the impotency in the fuel sit uation conies the decision that a war cabinet is necessary to prevent a rep etition similar to dr garfield's ac tion they say the country will be right back of the bill and public sen timent will force it through food problem serious garfield's warning washington jan is â€” dr gar field to-night said the food situation in the country is very serious be cause of transportation the move ment in oats has dropped 75 per cent of normal and some food products so per cent director general mcadoo to-night appealed to the farmers lo aid the railroads by eliminating unnecessary transportation Chicago hero's wife gets carnegie medal pittsburg jan 23 â€” mrs arthur a henry 7332 coles avenue Chicago was rewarded with a silver medal and 50 a month pension by the carnegie hero fund commission at its four teenth annual session to-day in rec ognition of her husband's heroism henry died attempting to save two girls from drowning at morgan park minn last summer twenty-four acts of heroism were rewarded pershing sent 200,000 defective gas masks providence r 1 jan 19 the providence journal says . - over 200,000 gas masks manufac tured in this country have been sent back by american army officers in france as absolutely worthless every mask used by pershing has been borrowed either from the british or frencw it is understood the re turned masks are being used in vari ous cantonments for training l accident delays north side residents north side ravenswood and evans ton residents were delayed ln reach ing home last night by an accidental grounding of the current on north bound tracks near indiana av south side industries had just begun releas ing their employes and 175 train were held up fourteen minutes u.s opens scores of Chicago industries | special exemptions prom wash ingfon and liberal rulings here give jobs back to many ' : more plants to open to-day but majority must stay shut few violations of edict reported . scores of Chicago plants or dered closed under the conser vation edict of national fuel ; ! administrator garfield were directed i to reopen yesterday a special list of exemptions was j received from washington liberal interpretation of the orig ; j inal decree by the state fuel admin : i istration placed more industries on ithe list state fsel admii'igtrtttor wheelei i added virtually all factories produc , ing food the largest plant affected by the i special exemption order was the illi nois steel company approximately '. | 10,000 employes making stee ship ; â– plate returned to work about 1.000 employes of the inland steel co were similarly affected - the aetna explosives co at gary ! will not be able to reopen until to i morrow night or sunday morning j one thousand men will then be re employed j harvester company opened by wheeler tiie american can co permitted to operate by food administrator i wheeler employs 5,000 under the same authority tlie bind j i er twine plants of the international i â– harvester co wili resume with 4,000 ! the indiana steel company at gary j with approximately 27.000 will call back its mill forces to-day the Chicago shipbuilding com | pany was exempted and recalled its j 2,200 men the gravel tank works of easl . i Chicago was directed to continue i | making armor plate the wilder | i tanning company in the ' waukegan i j district received orders to go ahead j i with government supplies the amer ican steel & wire company with 2,000-more workers prepared for sim ilar instructions glass works told to finish products the Illinois glass company oper ating eight furnaces reported that a shutdown would ruin totally products now being made tho policies com mittee ruled this contingency was covered by the continuous processes exemption . * ,' under a ruling that transportation should be fostered motor trucks and other vehicles consuming gaaoline for power may operate the cartage exchange announced that teaming companies would maintain normal service monday holidays modified by ruling monday holidays were rendered considerably leas strict by an edict of thc food administration stores whose principal business is in foods need not close at noon provided the temperature is reduced to 45 degrees employes in mail order houses food departments also may work another blanket interpretation af fected hundreds of industries it pro vided that manufactories absoluteiy necessary to the public health may operate the vast majority of chicago's 10.000 factories were idle however fires were banked and only suffi cient heat maintained to prevent damage to property the government's attitude toward president calls on people for sacrifice iifashington jan 18 president wilson issued ihe fol rr lowing statement to-night i was of course consulted by mr garfield before the fuel order of yesterday was issued and fully agreed with him that it was necessary much as i regretted the necessity this war calls for many sacrifices and sacrifices of the sort called for by this order are infinitely less than sacrifices of life which might otherwise be involved it is absolutely necessary to get the ships away it is abso lutely necessary to relieve the congestion at the ports and upon the railwayj it is absolutely necessary that our people should be warmed in their homes if nowhere else and half-way measures would not have accomplished the desired ends if action such as tliis had not been taken we should have limped along from day to day with a slowly improving condition of affairs with regard to the shipment of food or coal but with out such immediate relief as had become absolutely necessary be cause of the congestions of traffic which have been piling up for the last few months i have every confidence that the result of the action of this sort will justify it and that the people of the country will loyally and patriotically respond to necessities of this kind as they have to every other sacrifice involved in the war we are upon a war footing and i am confident that the people of the united states are willing to observe the same sort of discipline that might be involved in the actual conflict itself order drastic but this is war says garfield declares food situation more threatening than coal shortage will be relieved washington jan 18 fuel ad ministrator garfield to-day issued the following statement in further explanation of his fuel restriction i order the order suspending tempo rarily the operation of industrial plants in portions of the united states is drastic yes war is dras tic the american people led by the president entered this war delib erately they are staking every thing for the realization of a great ideal and the ideal is practical we know that democracy must be made a reality at home as well as abroad that its benefits must be shared by all and its sacrifices borne by no single class capital and labor are embarked in this war because all americans are in it and the american spirit cries oue against the least sugges tion that the burden be shifted to the backs of any one class least of all labor for labor has less finan cial ability to meet the prolonged hardships of war than capital calm thought backs order we are realizing the truth now as never before that capital and labor are not two but one their problems present merely two as pects of the same vital question industry is in an unbalanced condition we lack many essen tials food clothing fuel we have piled up enormous stores of things not essential to life but very es sential to war we have piled them up so high on our docks and in our storehouses that the ships available cannot carry them away as fast as they pile up for lack of banker coal held back by terrific i i congestion the number of ships in our harbors increases menacingly food supplv in most peril the food supply is threatened to an even greater extent than the fuel supply this condition is in \ large part due to the congestion that at many ports holds the loaded ; cars in its grip the order as it stands puts ill industries on an equal footing j favoring none and avoiding unfair i competition but this reason alone \ is not sufficient this reason plus i the fact that the order will put coal in the empty bins of the peo ple will save coal will aid in , breaking up congestion of traffic i and in furnishing an adequate sup j ply of coai to the people who need j it and to the ships which cannot j sail without it â€” these are silent j reasons and justify the order instant action vital only those industries producing necessary war material that can be ' promptly delivered are permitted to i operate during the suspension period to allow those fortunate enough j lo possess a coal pile to continue would result in traffic congestion and unless they also were suspend i ed at a later period the needed sav i ing in consumption of coal would i not result to have delayed tlie application , of the order would only have added to the congestion j german coal short royal theaters shut berne jan is â€” dispatches re ceived here say the royal theater in stuttgart has been closed by the gov ernment of wurttemberg to save coal all the other royal theaters in ger many shortly will be closed for the same reason theaters may stay open on mondays washington jan 18 â€” theaters probably will be permitted to re main open on mondays and tuesday substituted as their closing day it was learned on high authority to-night a modification to this effect will probably be made known to-morrow u s gives bryan jr 6 months vacation tucson arl3 jan is â€” because of ill ' health william jennings bryan jr assistant united states district attorney for this district has been granted a six months leave of ab sence - reprieve in sight for department stores washington jan is after ten jtatively rejecting a proposal of chi cago department stores to open on the ten fuelless mondays but main tain shorter hour schedules on other days fuel administrator garfield held up the matter for further con sideration to-day wlien new york stores joined Chicago merchants in the offer food administration officials said to-night it had been decided to re consider the entire department store question u s given process to treble its gasoline detroit jan is dr a s ram age reports a new process of ex tracting gasoline from crude oil which will give three times the re sults-now obtained has been offered to the united states government free for the duration of the war for sev eral months the product has been ob tained here on a commercial scale bgÃŸntinued on sth page 3d column j continued on 2d page 7th column ( ff l-l the weather jl2 h i - b Chicago 4nu vici mtv c ! t r*~l generally fall ivith slowly rls â€” ins tciiipi-r.idiro sntcrdnyi un iy unsettled nnrt colli i>on fis nlbly unoit'i modernte vesterly sk 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Chicago examiner saturday Chicago january 19 1918 saturday u.s^ruc price two cents sssms vol xvi no 25 a m fuel edict vital says wilson unuun qecrei r mcadoo quits meeting after re fusing to support tidewater embargo urged by fuel head lane's resignation rumored and denied talk of impeaching garfield rife in senate washington jan is dr harry a garfield's drastic ' fuel order has precipitated a i crisis in the cabinet for nearly four hours to-day the | president's official advisers wrestled i with the problem it was a stormy i session following this the president ! anj tils fuel administrator issued i statements defending the order \ but it is doubted in many quarters >| that the statements represented the . individual sentiment of the cabinet reports to-night were that secre : tary lane incensed over the failure j of the president to consult with the j entire cabinet before issuing the or i der has resigned this was denied ! officially up to president says angry cabinet member one cabinet member leaving the j meeting this afternoon was asked ! his views of the garfield order the president and the gentlemen he consulted are responsible he i snapped back tliere were indications in the cab â€¢ inet meeting of friction between ; railroad director mcadoo and dr garfield the fuel administrator haa i recommended an embargo on all ship ! ments to tidewater points until the : harbor congestion is cleared di i rector mcadoo is opposed to an eni | bargo and said so mr mcadoo left thc cabinet meet 1 ing while the discussion over the coal j order was at white heat he said i am of the opinion the drastic 1 step taken was necessary or the i president never would have per mitted it i understand that i am charged by congressmen with full j responsibility for the coal order i this is wrong bul i prefer not to j discuss that phase of the que ! tion . __. ! garfield able man jm'adoo declares the country should understand that dr garfield has been in touch with this situation for several i months while my time has been all ' devoted to treasury department matters until the last two or three | weeks and let me say also tliat 1 i'.avt known dr garfield for a ions time and consider him an able man congress is seething with rebellion i the senate was loud in its indigna j tion over the action of dr garfield ! in issuing his order in face of tha formal demand of the senate for a postponement â€¢ there was talk here and tliere o a possible impeachment of the fuel administrator but the most serious sign of resentment was a widespread determination to deny the adminis tration any extraordinary power ia the future 1,000 more plants j are given exemption dr garfield in his statement to day asserted the food supply of the nation was threatened to an even greater degree than the fuel supply by congestion his office backed up the defense to-night with a statement that boi much coal had reached tidewater as a result of the first day's shutdown that before long a million ton ot george ready to join peace parleys will confer with german dele gates on british labor's terms when teutons will talk sense premier challenges unions to overthrow the government whenever they are dissatisfied j jr ondon jan is at the close of j a notable address by lloyd j â€¢â– -' george to the trade unions of great britain to-day in which he j practically told the laborites that | the winning cf the war rested on | their co-operation the premier was j vigorously heckled in the course of plain-spoken and ; unrehearsed question and answer lloyd george challenged the labor , ites to overthrow the government if they were dissatisfied and at any time they pleased he also declared that england was ready to discuss peace with germany's commissioners if they really represented the ger j man people many questions were put to the juemier by delegates regarding peace negotiations or permitting a confer ence at stockholm lloyd george replied germany ready for peace at own price â– â– | . germany always has been ready for peace at her own price but that is not a price that we are prepared to pay the moment the germans show a disposition to nc gufiate a peace on equitable terms Â»â€” and they are the terms the labor party itself has in substance adopted â€” there will be no reluc tance to enter into peace negoti ations ithe premiers objection lo the stockholm conference was lhat dele gates of thc german government m'toukl be chose a delegate inter jected not necessarily warns against being deceived lloyd george replied 1 do not let us deceive ourselves f with delusions you can only make ' \ peace with a government if the v government does not represent the people of germany let them change their government the premier heie challenged his juidience to change their own govern ment if they are dissatisfied ancl a ; delegate called out j u.s an opportunit ." . ' lloyd george replied we havc given you the best op portunity because wc introduced a franchise bill adding s 000,000 to the electorate you can have your opportunity whenever you like it is not the government which shrinks from it will recognize people's government asked whether if the germans de | cided on a government similar to that j of the present russian government england would recognize their rep resentatives lloyd george replied we will recognize the repre sentatives of any government what ever set up by the german people a delegate asked whether presi dent wilson's reference to the free dom of the seas agreed with the views of the british government mr lloyd george replied i wish to know what freedom of the seas means does it mean freedom for submarines and does lit mean starvation for this coun | try after all we are in a very ] peace on way minister tells prussian diet amsterdam jan 18 finance minister hermet in introduc ing the budget in the prussian diet said despite internal political con vulsions we have a feeling of relief in the consciousness we can economically hold out even if the dearness and scarcity of foodstuffs should increase the general morale also had suf fered under war conditions hut of what significance is that when we remember our brilliant military position created by the incomparable and glorious deeds of our army and fleet even though many hindran ces bar our wav to peace peace is on the march and the longer the western powers are recal citrant the more favorable to us will the peace terms he roumania and russ near war j bolshevik army sends two-hour edict demanding pas sage to j assy petrograd jan 1 delayed â€” the bolsheviki announced to-day for \ mer premier kerensky former minis ter of war savinkoft and m fllonen ko in hldine here have plotted with general knledlne to overthrow the bolshevik government at the constitu ent assembly's opening to-morrow an ' extraordinary commission for the ; ik-oteetlon of petrogrnd has been ap pointed london jan is â€” the revolution ! ary committee of the 9th russian i j army lias sent a two-hour ultimatum ] to roumania demanding tliat russian troops be permitted to pass thkmgh jassy the roumanian capital the i situation is regarded as dangerous according to dispatches from petro grad a flat denial was issued at smolny institute to-day of the report that the bolshevik government has issued orders for the arrest of the king of roumania martial law ix capital the safety commission of the bol sheviki to-day placed the capital un i der martial law while the real rea son is believed to be to guard against any disorders in connection with the meeting of the constituent assembly i scheduled for to-day a statement by ! the commission says all attempts at revolt are to be vigorously suppressed former premier kerensky is re ported to be in sweden by the petro grad vechernia vremya which re sumed publication on tuesday â– a request by the german delega tion in petrograd that the czarina and other members of the russian royal family related to the kaiser be permitted to go to germany to live i was refused by thc bolsheviki it 1 was decided to place members of the 1 family on trial at once a settlement in principle of the questions concerning the political re i latlons of the central powers and the ukrainians was reached during a pri vate conference according to berlin reports of the brest-litovsk confer ence the statement declares the settle ment is a decisive step forward dr von kuehlmann tho german i foreign secretary urged businesslike ! discussion of the four points pro posed by the russian delegation ' trotsky agreed and the next sitting i was set for the following day thurs | day j hertling postpones speech amsterdam jan is â€” chancellor hertling's postponement of his reply to president wilson and premier lloyd george to-day is said to be due to his desire to wait until the conflict between the annexationists and nonannexationists is compro mised / major gardner leaves estate of 1,000,000 salem mass jan is â€” the will of maj augustus p gardner former congressman who died at camp wheeler ga was filed here to-day his estate amounted to more than a million dollars his wife gets 350 000 and the same amount goes to his only daughter constance g mlnot food causes mutinies in four nations great unrest leading to riots i reported from russia austria germany and great britain delay in peace negotiations adds to uneasiness of people rus sian railways in hands of mobs amsterdam jan 18 â€” entire com panies of austrian troops have been ordered executed for agreeing with russian socialist views according to dispatches peace riots in vienna peace riots have occurred in vi enna in which food shops were looted russian peace propaganda reduced bread rations and police regulations to prevent workers meetings are as signed as the reason strikes and serious riots are re ported to have taken place monday at vienna gratz brunn linz and wiener-neustadt the volkesstemme of mannheim a socialist paper says serious popular demonstrations against the german j annexationist policy took place at budapest and other towns in hun gary and austria after chancellor von hertling made his statement in the reichstag german plight serious paris jan 18 â€” authentic advices received from switzerland indicate the pinch of starvation and the un rest is greater in germany than ever before the russian peace move fails to quell the people's rising anger the dispatches strengthen the view that germany is staking all on one great drive in the west however no doubt is felt here that the allied line will hold russians starving copenhagen jan is the food situation is causing the greatest con cern in russia prices are beyond the reach of most of the people in ferior butter sells for 5 a pound as a result of pillaging of trains by the starving populace bolsheviki troops to-day were ordered to use whatever measures were necessary to restore order re-establish train service and check profiteers british food concern london jan 18 â€” baron rhondda food controller to-day said his worst difficulty in obtaining adequate sup plies of food for the populations of great britain was due to the falling off in imports and the fact that most of the imported goods went to the army Â„ he asked potatoes be largely eaten and used for the making of bread the speaker said the people must economize more than they had if they did so there was not the slight est fear of panic the germans would consider the rations of many of the english people to-day an ac tual luxury it wsfc necessary the food controller continued to reduce the consumption of meat during the next few weeks but there was no i prospect of a meat famine newspapers in london are giving increased attention to home food troubles and popular impatience with what is regarded widely as avoid able privations the times torday prominently calls attention to the of unequal distribution of food and its offspring the queue system which it says is beginning to tell on the public temper lloyd george seeks compromise on erin london jan 18 â€” the fact that the irish convention has adjourned until next tuesday instead of closing this week as reported is understood to mean according to the daily news that the government will ascertain whether a compromise is possible on points at issue dublin reports that premier lloyd george is informing himself of the ulster council's atti tude toward a settlement korniloff wounded in battle with reds london jan 18 â€” general korni loff leader of one of the opposition factions is reported to have been wounded in a fight between his forces and bolsheviki at chernigov \ jap cruiser lands troops in vladivostok petrograd jan 18 a jap anese cruiser has landed troops at vladivostok the jap anese consul there declares the soldiers are to keep order owing to danger threatening japanese citizens according to dispatches received here no desire to inter fere in russian affairs is held he asserts senators agree on war cabinet bill will provide for three dis tinguished men of affairs to be named by wilson washington jan is the sen ate military affairs committee will report out monday a bill providing for creation of a super-war cabinet to be appointed by the president and to consist of three distinguished men of affairs not members of the present cabinet earlier in the day the bill creating a director of munitions was favorably reported wilson favors bill , the fact that the secretary of war and secretary of the navy have been left out of the war cabinet is the surprise of the day contrary to-all expectation and pre vious statements it was declared on most reliable authority to-night that both the secretary and the presfdeiit are now favorable to the idea that a war cabinet acting between the pres ident and the usual cabinet would be a step in the right direction wheth er the president and mr baker will favor elimination of the secretaries is a question there will be a fight on both bills but the war cabinet bill will be pushed vigorously by the senate mil itary committee senate to ratify names senators say that with the realiza tion of the impotency in the fuel sit uation conies the decision that a war cabinet is necessary to prevent a rep etition similar to dr garfield's ac tion they say the country will be right back of the bill and public sen timent will force it through food problem serious garfield's warning washington jan is â€” dr gar field to-night said the food situation in the country is very serious be cause of transportation the move ment in oats has dropped 75 per cent of normal and some food products so per cent director general mcadoo to-night appealed to the farmers lo aid the railroads by eliminating unnecessary transportation Chicago hero's wife gets carnegie medal pittsburg jan 23 â€” mrs arthur a henry 7332 coles avenue Chicago was rewarded with a silver medal and 50 a month pension by the carnegie hero fund commission at its four teenth annual session to-day in rec ognition of her husband's heroism henry died attempting to save two girls from drowning at morgan park minn last summer twenty-four acts of heroism were rewarded pershing sent 200,000 defective gas masks providence r 1 jan 19 the providence journal says . - over 200,000 gas masks manufac tured in this country have been sent back by american army officers in france as absolutely worthless every mask used by pershing has been borrowed either from the british or frencw it is understood the re turned masks are being used in vari ous cantonments for training l accident delays north side residents north side ravenswood and evans ton residents were delayed ln reach ing home last night by an accidental grounding of the current on north bound tracks near indiana av south side industries had just begun releas ing their employes and 175 train were held up fourteen minutes u.s opens scores of Chicago industries | special exemptions prom wash ingfon and liberal rulings here give jobs back to many ' : more plants to open to-day but majority must stay shut few violations of edict reported . scores of Chicago plants or dered closed under the conser vation edict of national fuel ; ! administrator garfield were directed i to reopen yesterday a special list of exemptions was j received from washington liberal interpretation of the orig ; j inal decree by the state fuel admin : i istration placed more industries on ithe list state fsel admii'igtrtttor wheelei i added virtually all factories produc , ing food the largest plant affected by the i special exemption order was the illi nois steel company approximately '. | 10,000 employes making stee ship ; â– plate returned to work about 1.000 employes of the inland steel co were similarly affected - the aetna explosives co at gary ! will not be able to reopen until to i morrow night or sunday morning j one thousand men will then be re employed j harvester company opened by wheeler tiie american can co permitted to operate by food administrator i wheeler employs 5,000 under the same authority tlie bind j i er twine plants of the international i â– harvester co wili resume with 4,000 ! the indiana steel company at gary j with approximately 27.000 will call back its mill forces to-day the Chicago shipbuilding com | pany was exempted and recalled its j 2,200 men the gravel tank works of easl . i Chicago was directed to continue i | making armor plate the wilder | i tanning company in the ' waukegan i j district received orders to go ahead j i with government supplies the amer ican steel & wire company with 2,000-more workers prepared for sim ilar instructions glass works told to finish products the Illinois glass company oper ating eight furnaces reported that a shutdown would ruin totally products now being made tho policies com mittee ruled this contingency was covered by the continuous processes exemption . * ,' under a ruling that transportation should be fostered motor trucks and other vehicles consuming gaaoline for power may operate the cartage exchange announced that teaming companies would maintain normal service monday holidays modified by ruling monday holidays were rendered considerably leas strict by an edict of thc food administration stores whose principal business is in foods need not close at noon provided the temperature is reduced to 45 degrees employes in mail order houses food departments also may work another blanket interpretation af fected hundreds of industries it pro vided that manufactories absoluteiy necessary to the public health may operate the vast majority of chicago's 10.000 factories were idle however fires were banked and only suffi cient heat maintained to prevent damage to property the government's attitude toward president calls on people for sacrifice iifashington jan 18 president wilson issued ihe fol rr lowing statement to-night i was of course consulted by mr garfield before the fuel order of yesterday was issued and fully agreed with him that it was necessary much as i regretted the necessity this war calls for many sacrifices and sacrifices of the sort called for by this order are infinitely less than sacrifices of life which might otherwise be involved it is absolutely necessary to get the ships away it is abso lutely necessary to relieve the congestion at the ports and upon the railwayj it is absolutely necessary that our people should be warmed in their homes if nowhere else and half-way measures would not have accomplished the desired ends if action such as tliis had not been taken we should have limped along from day to day with a slowly improving condition of affairs with regard to the shipment of food or coal but with out such immediate relief as had become absolutely necessary be cause of the congestions of traffic which have been piling up for the last few months i have every confidence that the result of the action of this sort will justify it and that the people of the country will loyally and patriotically respond to necessities of this kind as they have to every other sacrifice involved in the war we are upon a war footing and i am confident that the people of the united states are willing to observe the same sort of discipline that might be involved in the actual conflict itself order drastic but this is war says garfield declares food situation more threatening than coal shortage will be relieved washington jan 18 fuel ad ministrator garfield to-day issued the following statement in further explanation of his fuel restriction i order the order suspending tempo rarily the operation of industrial plants in portions of the united states is drastic yes war is dras tic the american people led by the president entered this war delib erately they are staking every thing for the realization of a great ideal and the ideal is practical we know that democracy must be made a reality at home as well as abroad that its benefits must be shared by all and its sacrifices borne by no single class capital and labor are embarked in this war because all americans are in it and the american spirit cries oue against the least sugges tion that the burden be shifted to the backs of any one class least of all labor for labor has less finan cial ability to meet the prolonged hardships of war than capital calm thought backs order we are realizing the truth now as never before that capital and labor are not two but one their problems present merely two as pects of the same vital question industry is in an unbalanced condition we lack many essen tials food clothing fuel we have piled up enormous stores of things not essential to life but very es sential to war we have piled them up so high on our docks and in our storehouses that the ships available cannot carry them away as fast as they pile up for lack of banker coal held back by terrific i i congestion the number of ships in our harbors increases menacingly food supplv in most peril the food supply is threatened to an even greater extent than the fuel supply this condition is in \ large part due to the congestion that at many ports holds the loaded ; cars in its grip the order as it stands puts ill industries on an equal footing j favoring none and avoiding unfair i competition but this reason alone \ is not sufficient this reason plus i the fact that the order will put coal in the empty bins of the peo ple will save coal will aid in , breaking up congestion of traffic i and in furnishing an adequate sup j ply of coai to the people who need j it and to the ships which cannot j sail without it â€” these are silent j reasons and justify the order instant action vital only those industries producing necessary war material that can be ' promptly delivered are permitted to i operate during the suspension period to allow those fortunate enough j lo possess a coal pile to continue would result in traffic congestion and unless they also were suspend i ed at a later period the needed sav i ing in consumption of coal would i not result to have delayed tlie application , of the order would only have added to the congestion j german coal short royal theaters shut berne jan is â€” dispatches re ceived here say the royal theater in stuttgart has been closed by the gov ernment of wurttemberg to save coal all the other royal theaters in ger many shortly will be closed for the same reason theaters may stay open on mondays washington jan 18 â€” theaters probably will be permitted to re main open on mondays and tuesday substituted as their closing day it was learned on high authority to-night a modification to this effect will probably be made known to-morrow u s gives bryan jr 6 months vacation tucson arl3 jan is â€” because of ill ' health william jennings bryan jr assistant united states district attorney for this district has been granted a six months leave of ab sence - reprieve in sight for department stores washington jan is after ten jtatively rejecting a proposal of chi cago department stores to open on the ten fuelless mondays but main tain shorter hour schedules on other days fuel administrator garfield held up the matter for further con sideration to-day wlien new york stores joined Chicago merchants in the offer food administration officials said to-night it had been decided to re consider the entire department store question u s given process to treble its gasoline detroit jan is dr a s ram age reports a new process of ex tracting gasoline from crude oil which will give three times the re sults-now obtained has been offered to the united states government free for the duration of the war for sev eral months the product has been ob tained here on a commercial scale bgÃŸntinued on sth page 3d column j continued on 2d page 7th column ( ff l-l the weather jl2 h i - b Chicago 4nu vici mtv c ! t r*~l generally fall ivith slowly rls â€” ins tciiipi-r.idiro sntcrdnyi un iy unsettled nnrt colli i>on fis nlbly unoit'i modernte vesterly sk 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